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I went to to a solicitor the other day about transferring my home into an unregistered Trust. I just need to know who was required to fill out the tax forms that was a part of the process of transference in NZ. He didn’t even know what an unregistered Trust was, he thought it was the same as a private family Trust and he didn’t think his Trust having a tax number meant it was registered (his private family Trust). He really didn’t know what I was talking about and when he was forced to make a decision as to whether I knew something he didn’t or whether I was a nutcase I could tell which one he was thinking. It was very interesting to see how upset he got when faced with something he was not sure of. I didn’t try to educate him, I just thanked him and left. Many lawyers have no clue there are two worlds the private and the public and when they do they just seem to want to put roadblocks in our way. It’s so good to know we can learn to take care of most of our own affairs ourselves.